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The Mail Troika

Mar/Apr 2012

Author: Mikhail Kondrashov
Translator: Liv Bliss
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2012
Department: History
Page: 52   ( 8) pages

Summary: Every language has words for which it is known the world over. Troika is one such word in Russian, and this equine configuration was critical to the history of Russian letters. And by that we don’t mean literature.


This article appeared in the Mar/Apr 2012 issue of Russian Life. The text of this article is not available online.

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